Review: Jus Ed clearly believes in the music of Dana Ruh, affording the German producer three records over which to spread her album. On this final installment the deep house delicacies don't let up a jot, with "Train Ride To You" leaning all over the A side with its soaring refrain comprised of tender piano and a powerful high-end sustained string. "Dirty Egg" tricks things out a little more with a leftfield, dubby finish to the gently ticking track as disparate swirls and swathes of synth pulse around the frequency range. Finishing up on "Just Don't" brings the album back into focus with the kind of unfussy deep house that largely defines Ruh's style, and a classy style it is too.

Review: Dana Ruh is best known as a figurehead for the mighty Brouqade, but she's equally found on many other labels in the mean time. On this occasion she's brought her distinctive, heavy grooving style to Autoreply for an examination of the artistic process in the shape of one jam, three ways. "Round 2 Reel 1" is the funkiest of the lot, using some killer swing and vibing chords to make for an upbeat, infectious yet still nicely kinked sound. "Round 2 Reel 2" takes things into a more intricate, techy headspace where snaking rhythms interlock with pockets of synth abstraction. "Round 2 Reel 3" continues that theme into a rich, exotic forest of mechanical tones for the adventurous techno trippers to zone out on.

Review: Sensoramic first started up in 2016 with releases from Laura Jones and Karousel, and now the label makes a comeback with some crafty techno excursions from Kamran Sadeghi. You can hear the errant behaviour of a plentiful hardware set up powering the glitchy tone on "Undone", but that intrigue doesn't come at the expense of the kinetic energy of the track. "Sentient" takes a slightly deeper approach, but there's still an abundance of sonic activity darting around in the mix. "Not Here" is the most immersive of the lot, using some powerful metallic tones to create a cavernous space and threading a nimble groove for the centre of it.

Review: American minimal maestro Kamran Sadeghi is without a doubt one the most singular talents in techno at the moment and here offers yet more refreshing perspectives for Dana Ruh and Anthea's Broquade imprint. This follows up some killer releases of later of late by the NYC/Berlin based live act on Meander and Fasten Musique. On the A side we have the stripped back trance induction exercise of "Come Here" most likely conjured from is impressive modular setup, awash in glitchy delay drenched drums and whirry synth textures. On the flip, "Compound Eye" is a more energetic effort with its tribal drum workout beneath airy pads and analogue blips and blurps - all combined for tremendous hypnotic effect. Finally, he teams up with label boss Ruh for a drastic change of vibe - but not altogether unpleasant! The boompty business of "Call & Response" sees Sadeghi's studio wizardry combine with Ruh's sense of swing perfectly on this sunny afterhours joint - that wouldn't sound out of place aboard the Hoppetosse on a Sunday morning!

Review: Romanian imprint Zimbru could hardly be described as prolific. In fact, this 12" is the label's third outing in three years. Fittingly, it features a track each from the two artists who graced their first two EPs. Sahau handles the A-side, laying down an undeniably epic, late night excursion that sits somewhere between the distinctive minimal techno swing of Ricardo Villalobos and spacey, ultra-deep house. Like the best Villalobos productions, it subtly ebbs and flows for 16 mesmerizing minutes. Over on the flipside Dan Andrei and Seban Goanta once again join forces as AK41, celebrating "The Man Who Wasn't There" via twittering birdsong, deep and rolling bass, ricocheting electronic riffs and impressively programmed percussion.

Review: Miami deep and tech house label Sports is hitting its third release with the sultry tones of Greek producer Salt, who offers up two original tracks of lean and mean tracks to get pumping to. "Quantum XL" features punchy bass, dubby FX and seductive chords that burrow right into the heart of the night, while "Imago Loop" takes a sharp turn into dreamy broken beat crafted with light, airy drums and woozy pads for the most blissful of listening experiences. On the remix front, Sylphe offer up a re-dub of "Quantum XL" that fattens the bass up further and works more percussive angles into the mix, while Martinez deftly swaps "Imago Loop"s breaks out for a slinky micro house beat.

Review: London minimal techno label Trapped Ldn turn their attention to new talent Rhys Samson, who gets freaky from the get go with the snaking beats and threads of psychoactive melodies and found sounds that make up the snappily titled "Paramedic To The Dancefloor". Cosmjn delivers a very different kind of remix of the original that has a more discoid flavour to it, although it maintains the late night trippiness that Trapped prefer overall. "Religious Clowns" is a deeper jam that seeks to soothe, albeit with plentiful rippling details still coursing through its veins, which Alan Castro capitalizes on with a remix that gets even more intricate and strange.

Review: The SlapFunk crew have been enjoying plenty of attention lately, and quite rightly. Their pumped up house sound is hard to refute, taking the heads down trippiness of minimal house and beefing it up with classic jacking sounds for an infectious party mixture. Samuel Deep gets the message, bringing just the right kind of swing to "MOOV!" to get bodies popping all over the joint, while "Keek Iz" rides the same beat but in a lower register. "42915 Beatz" is just as drum led, but there's a little more fidgety sonic interplay popping off around the drums. Ingi Visions pops up on the B2 for the distinctly more eerie "Tekniq", placing an icy string synth refrain at the heart of the track with chilling results.

Review: Although Amsterdam's Daniel Sanchez has appeared regularly on classic tech-house labels like Area Remote or Bla Bla Records since the late 00s, he had yet to make an appearance on Mannheim's ever-impressive 8bit Records. Home to peeps like Nick Curly, Alex Niggemann, Audiofly, and even Steve Lawler, they are the masters of the modern Balearic dance. Sanchez's "Thang" obviously slides into the roster with utter ease, the groove smashing out intricate waves of glitch and heavy kicks, while "We Are Puppets" strays from the formula to drop a faster, more techno-minded rhythm for the peak time, and "Mapuche" slides its liquid-like drums along a cavernous string of voices and phased-out sonics. Effective.

Review: Given that both Julien Sandre and Pierre Codarin have been pulling up trees on the underground for some time, you'd expect this collaborative EP on Berlin's EWax to be solidly on-point. It is, of course, with all four tracks striking the right balance between deep house dreaminess and the skewed grooves of Parisian tech-house. Our highlight is probably the hypnotic late night hum of "Down Shake", where drifting vocal samples and hushed electronics weave in an out of a bass-heavy tech groove, though the sub-heavy snap of early morning throb-job "Closer" isn't far behind. Elsewhere, you'll find more chunky tech-house thrills in the shape of "Mystere", while opener "Kalypso" is a deep and dreamy treat.

Review: Sasaki Hiroaki has been immersed in electronic music in Japan for longer than most, but it's his more recent diversions into techno and minimal that have provided a solid foundation for his creative arc. He appears here on Open Recordings with some crisply produced, deep-as-you-like tech house joints with more than a little thread of dub about them. "Sprinkler" uses massive clanging chords to shape out the atmosphere of the track, while "Speak" ladles a measured amount of delay and reverb over the mix to make things move just the right amount. Frazer Campbell comes on board to remix "Sprinkler", and does so with an uplifting Detroit techno approach that is as infectious as it is refined. Pablo Tamo takes on "Speak" and injects some reduced 2-step craftiness into its bones.

Review: Well, we're used to hearing Sasha on some progressive tip or, at least, bouncing around in the same space as labels like John Digweed's Bedrock, but here we have proof that the veteran producer is still out to diversify his sound and reach new audiences. The long-time DJ and producer steps up on Cologne's mythical Kompakt stable with "Out Of Time", a magnificently suave and laid-back house bombshell guided by the man's unmistakable prog-flex; this is the sort of gear you want to hear as you step into the dance and sip that first cocktail... a certified mood changer. On the flip we're graced with a few tenacious remixes; Patrice Baumel delivers an eight minute rework of the original, this time filtered through a much housier sort of guise that reminds us of the twilight hours on the Balearic islands' sandy beaches. Check the instrumental too - it'll be a useful DJ tool for sure.

Review: We asked our favourite remixers of the moment to tackle the electronic disco vibe of the original Sasse production taken from his recent album "Made With The Upper Stairs Of Heaven". Peter Dildo, the man behind Trackdown Records, delivers his phat trademark sound of deep-house meets-post minimal in a slamming arrangement of fine tuned drums and hypnotic synth stabbing.

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